Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2018 November 4 From the September 1, 1955 issue of the Roseau Times-Region comes a story about the Jacklin Mill in Roseau, which apparently was being dismantled that year. Old Mill Part of Local Life. 1893 was a long time ago and […]
Special Holiday Hours
Special Hours Saturday, Dec. 1 – Open 10-3 pm Sunday, Dec. 2 – Open 12-4 pm Saturday, Dec. 8 – Open 11-3 pm Saturday, Dec. 15 – Open 11-3 pm Saturday, Dec. 22 – Open 11-3 pm Monday, Dec. 24 – Open 9:30-3 pm Tuesday, Dec. 25 – Closed Dec. 26-28 & 31 – Open […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – October 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2018 October 7 A story about a fire that could’ve been a lot worse had it not been for a switchboard operator. The headline is “Fire Gutted Nelson Café.” Here’s the story from the newspaper: An alert telephone operator, Mrs. Luella Jensen, […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – September 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2018 September 2, 9, 16 A continued story from Marcella Eklund Woidtke’s story of her mother’s family. Her mother was Emily Nelson Erickson, and Emily’s parents, Arne and Mathilde Nelson, were born in Norway and emigrated to the US, and then settled […]
The Tomte & the Troll
The Trolleri Players present: The Tomte & the Troll Come, experience the Trolleri (means Magic in Swedish) Players as they bring “The Tomte and the Troll” to life, Monday, October 1 at the Roseau City Center. Tomtes and Trolls are as old as the dawn of Scandinavia… and are sworn, enemies. So how is it […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – August 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded August 2018 August 5 A lot of people came to see the Roseau County Museum’s exhibit at the county fair where the museum had a display of medical equipment and posters telling about some of the doctors that worked in Roseau. One person […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – July 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2018 July 1 The continued story of Jens Pederson from Greenbush, which was included in Book II of “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, a publication by Roseau County Historical Society. Jens started logging with his father when he was old enough, about 15 or […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – June 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2018 June 3 Last week Sheila started reading from an article in a 1982 Roseau Times-Region in the archives of the Roseau County Museum. Elmer and Rose Holland were celebrating their 50th anniversary that year and were interviewed for the newspaper. Elmer […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – May 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2018 May 6 Reading continue from Carl Listug’s story that is filed in the research area of the Roseau County Museum. Today listen about the early days of the settlement of this region. “The white settlers cleared the land, raised crops, built […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – April 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2018 April 1 One of the ancestors described in the family history of Wayne T. Melby is Martin Tolleivson Tollefson. I found Wayne’s compilation of stories in the Roseau County Museum. It was written in 1986. Considered one of the early pioneers […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – March 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2018 March 4 Hear an article in the Warroad Pioneer newspapers from February and March of 1918. The Roseau County Chapter of The Red Cross is broke, financially busted, all the shekels gone from the treasury, as a result of the industry […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – February 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded February 2018 February 4 An article from Roseau Times-Region from the 1950s tells a story with this title, “Hetteen Hoist Builds Nationwide Markets”. Throughout the length and breadth of the agricultural states in this country and the farming areas of Canada, a Roseau […]
Fur Trade Traveling Exhibit
The Roseau County Historical Society Presents ‘Fur Trade in Minnesota,’ a New Traveling Exhibit Opening February 12, 2018 Explore the fascinating people and places of Minnesota’s first global business in “Fur Trade in Minnesota,” a new traveling exhibit from the Minnesota History Center opening February 12 at the Roseau County Museum in the Roseau City […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – January 2018
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2018 In 1988, Florence (Knochenmus) Klema wrote a booklet about the Casperson School, which is now located at the Roseau Pioneer Farm, 3 miles west of Roseau. The school came originally from Golden Valley Township, southeast of Wannaska. In the preface […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – December 2017
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2017 December 3 This story comes from Bert Wenner’s account of growing up as one of 5 sons. December 10 Bert Wenner’s account of his life in Roseau County from the 1920s and during the Depression years. He also wrote about how […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – November 2017
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2017 November 5 By this time 100 years ago, life in the county revolved around the needs of World War I. An article appeared in the October 12, 1917, issue of Roseau Times-Region. Horses were needed for the war effort and this article […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – October 2017
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2017 October 1 The beginning of the Bi-National Airport in the Pinecreek area which started out on the United States side only. October 8 A reading from Marshall Wiskow’s booklet, The Steam Whistle. It was sold as a souvenir at the Northland Steam […]
Sunday Morning Radio Reading – September 2017
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2017 September 3 & 10 In 2014, Bert Wenner wrote a story about his family, which is on file in the Roseau County Museum’s family history area. I’ve been reading from that story about the older generations of Bert’s family, and now […]
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